Transforming Japanese Business

Author : Anshuman Khare,Hiroki Ishikura,William W. Baber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811503276

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Transforming Japanese Business by Anshuman Khare,Hiroki Ishikura,William W. Baber Pdf

This book explores how the business transformation taking place in Japan is influenced by the digital revolution. Its chapters present approaches and examples from sectors commonly understood to be visible arenas of digital transformation—3D printing and mobility, for instance—as well as some from not-so-obvious sectors, such as retail, services, and fintech. Business today is facing unprecedented change especially due to the adoption of new, digital technologies, with a noticeable transformation of manufacturing and services. The changes have been brought by advanced robotics, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and digital networks that are growing in size and capability as the number of connected devices explodes. In addition, there are advanced manufacturing and collaborative connected platforms, including machine-to-machine communications. Adoption of digital technology has caused process disruptions in both the manufacturing and services sectors and led to new business models and new products. While examining the preparedness of the Japanese economy to embrace these changes, the book explores the impact of digitally influenced changes on some selected sectors from a Japanese perspective. It paints a big picture in explaining how a previously manufacturing-centric, successful economy adopts change to retain and rebuild success in the global environment. Japan as a whole is embracing, yet also avoiding—innovating but also restricting—various forms of digitalization of life and work. The book, with its 17 chapters, is a collaborative effort of individuals contributing diverse points of view as technologists, academics, and managers.

Author : Anshuman Khare,Nobutaka Odake,Hiroki Ishikura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000511161

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Japanese Business Operations in an Uncertain World by Anshuman Khare,Nobutaka Odake,Hiroki Ishikura Pdf

This book looks at Japanese companies in manufacturing and services sectors and how they are trying to emerge from the prolonged uncertainty of the pandemic. The chapters are written by those dealing with Japanese business under the shadow of the pandemic and being influenced by the continuous and rapid adoption of digital technologies in business and our daily lives. This book brings together the experiences of big and small corporations while looking at how digital transformation and the pandemic combined have led to a transformation in the product, production processes and services. It highlights the role played by robots, 3-D printing and renewable energy in manufacturing while the impact can be seen in the changes coming to future offices, how we work and interact and how we relax through tourism and travel on the service side. The services sector is as much impacted by digital transformation and the pandemic as any other field in business. Aimed at academics, researchers and practitioners, Japanese Business Operations in an Uncertain World will provide valuable insights into how Japanese organizations are adapting to the dual impact of the pandemic and advancements in digital technologies.

Author : Anshuman Khare,William W. Baber
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819903214

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Adopting and Adapting Innovation in Japan's Digital Transformation by Anshuman Khare,William W. Baber Pdf

This book explores how the business transformation taking place in Japan is influenced by the digital revolution. The chapters present approaches and examples from sectors commonly understood to be visible arenas of digital transformation—3D printing and mobility, for instance—as well as some from not-so-obvious sectors, such as retail, services, and fintech. Business today is facing unprecedented change especially due to the adoption of new, digital technologies, with a noticeable transformation of manufacturing and services. The changes have been brought by advanced robotics, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and digital networks that are growing in size and capability as the number of connected devices explodes. In addition, there are advanced manufacturing and collaborative connected platforms, including machine-to-machine communications. Adoption of digital technology has caused process disruptions in both the manufacturing and services sectors and led to new business models and new products. While examining the preparedness of the Japanese economy to embrace these changes, the book explores the impact of digitally influenced changes on some selected sectors from a Japanese perspective. It paints a big picture in explaining how a previously manufacturing-centric, successful economy adopts change to retain and rebuild success in the global environment. Japan as a whole is embracing, yet also avoiding—innovating but also restricting—various forms of digitalization of life and work. The book, with its 12 chapters, is a collaborative effort of individuals contributing diverse points of view as technologists, academics, and managers.

Author : Jeffrey K. Liker,W. Mark Fruin,Paul S. Adler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195353464

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Remade in America by Jeffrey K. Liker,W. Mark Fruin,Paul S. Adler Pdf

Over the last two decades, Japanese firms have challenged U.S. dominance in many manufacturing industries. This challenge has increasingly come in the form of transplant operations, and recognition has spread that their success owes a great deal to superior manufacturing management. Despite the ups and downs of the business cycle in Japan, there remains a core of world-class Japanese companies that have developed manufacturing management systems that companies throughout the world strive to emulate. In this edited volume, a team of eminent scholars uses case studies and large-scale surveys to explain in depth the process of transferring and transforming the best Japanese Management Systems (JMS) by both Japanese- and U.S.-owned firms. While the most successful of the Japanese manufacturing transplants rely, to varying degrees, on home country management techniques, they have had to adapt them to fit U.S. conditions. Similarly, the growing number of U.S. firms that are adopting these techniques to strengthen their own positions face a considerable challenge in transforming them to fit local conditions. A new environment necessarily compels the transformation of JMS. But despite the hurdles firms face, the evidence presented here and elsewhere strongly indicates that key aspects of JMS are remarkably transferable and successful in the United States. Combining scientific data with clear and engaging prose,Remade in America is a rich analytical resource for manufacturing professionals, as well as scholars and students of management and business.

Author : Subhash Durlabhji,Norton E. Marks,Scott Roach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791412512

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Japanese Business by Subhash Durlabhji,Norton E. Marks,Scott Roach Pdf

This collection of readings is intended to serve as a foundation for those expecting to have commercial interaction with the Japanese. The selections--from sources not limited to mainstream business journals--address various aspects of the cultural environment of Japanese business and discuss communication and interpersonal relationships, the institutional and legal environment, management and marketing, and the Japanese approach to manufacturing. Some specific topics: the influence of Confucianism and Zen on the Japanese organization, gift-giving, the ethnography of dinner entertainment, spiritual education in a Japanese bank, women managers.

Author : T. Sakikawa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137268860

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Transforming Japanese Workplaces by T. Sakikawa Pdf

Explores the transformations that have taken place in Japanese workplaces since the dawn of the new millennium in terms of management practices, particularly in the areas of Human Resource Management and organizational culture. The author empirically assesses the effectiveness of the new approaches introduced by Japanese companies.

Author : Yozo Hasegawa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118181577

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Rediscovering Japanese Business Leadership by Yozo Hasegawa Pdf

Who are Asia's biggest business leaders? What kind of leadership skills and philosophies do they possess that have put them at the forefront of their respective industries? What makes these business leaders, in particular, best-equipped to meet the challenges of a 21st century global economy? In Rediscovering Japanese Business Leadership, we gain insights into the leadership strategies of Japan’s most successful global brands, including Toyota, Canon, and Nintendo. This book will be the first title in a series on Asian business leaders, leading companies and corporate philosophies in the 21st century. The inaugural volume will focus on business leaders and strategies at Japanese companies that are not only driving and reshaping their respective industries in the 21st century, but are demonstrating a knack for consistently meeting the various challenges of today's rapidly changing world.

Author : Shige Makino,Yasuro Uchida,Tamiko Kasahara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 981998615X

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Transformation of Japanese Multinational Enterprises and Business by Shige Makino,Yasuro Uchida,Tamiko Kasahara Pdf

The purpose of this book is to highlight how current successful Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) and companies have changed their business or business models in the past three decades. Japanese MNEs received a lot of attention from academia and industry during the 1980s and the early 1990s, and their factors for success have been compared with those of Western MNEs. Unfortunately, following the collapse of the “bubble economy” in the early 1990s, international business researchers and practitioners’ attention has turned away from Japan and its MNEs to emerging markets, notably the rapidly growing China. Japanese MNEs have faced the mature domestic economy and also have had to overcome many new challenges in the twenty-first century, such as rapid aging, depopulation, and response to new technologies. Japanese MNEs and companies today are being forced to respond to new business environments never seen in the past. The prerequisites for business activities have significantly changed from those of former Japanese companies and their management practices. Even in such a difficult situation, however, many Japanese MNEs and emerging companies have achieved steady growth and have succeeded by changing their business models. This book provides the reader with new directions for research and lessons by analyzing the challenges of Japanese multinational enterprises and emerging companies. The redirection of attention is expected to have a positive impact on the field of international business study and practice.

Author : Shige Makino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819986163

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Transformation of Japanese Multinational Enterprises and Business by Shige Makino Pdf

Author : Toyohiro Kono,Stewart Clegg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110155885

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Transformations of Corporate Culture by Toyohiro Kono,Stewart Clegg Pdf

Author : Ulrike Schaede
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801460555

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Choose and Focus by Ulrike Schaede Pdf

Between 2002 and 2008, Japan's economy saw constant expansion, a record among the world's advanced economies and Japan's longest period of economic growth since World War II. This remarkable achievement came about because of a transformation of Japanese business practices. This transformation was guided by strategies that enabled Japan's leading corporations, previously diversified to an exceptionally high degree, to become leaner, more nimble, and more competitive at home and in the global economy. In Choose and Focus, the first in-depth account of this strategic inflection point in Japanese business, Ulrike Schaede argues that the emerging practices and attitudes have created a New Japan. Drawing on profiles of several corporations, including Panasonic, Takeda and Astellas, Softbank, kakaku.com, and SBI E*Trade, Schaede explains how the fundamental principles of Japan's economy have been overturned. "Choose and focus" strategies, whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture. These surprisingly aggressive moves, Schaede finds, have created new market opportunities for start-up enterprises and foreign investors, as well as a wave of mergers, acquisitions, and hostile takeovers that have shaken Japanese companies out of complacency. Unlike the advances made by Japanese firms in the 1970s and 1980s, the current transformation is taking root in component and materials industries rather than in consumer products. Because of the relative obscurity of the changes and the overshadowing story of China's ascent, the Japanese corporate revolution has gone largely unnoticed among Western observers. Choose and Focus is required reading for anyone doing business in Japan or trying to understand how contemporary Japanese business works and how Japanese corporations have reinvented themselves to face the challenges—and realize the opportunities—of the 21st century.

Author : Ulrike Schaede
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503612365

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The Business Reinvention of Japan by Ulrike Schaede Pdf

After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise of China and new global competition by moving upstream into critical deep-tech inputs and advanced materials and components. This new "aggregate niche strategy" has made Japan the technology anchor for many global supply chains. Although the end products do not carry a "Japan Inside" label, Japan plays a pivotal role in our everyday lives across many critical industries. This book is an in-depth exploration of current Japanese business strategies that make Japan the world's third-largest economy and an economic leader in Asia. To accomplish their reinvention, Japan's largest companies are building new processes of breakthrough innovation. Central to this book is how they are addressing the necessary changes in organizational design, internal management processes, employment, and corporate governance. Because Japan values social stability and economic equality, this reinvention is happening slowly and methodically, and has gone largely unnoticed by Western observers. Yet, Japan's more balanced model of "caring capitalism" is both competitive and transformative, and more socially responsible than the unbridled growth approach of the United States.

Author : Kazuo Sato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315285276

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The Transformation of the Japanese Economy by Kazuo Sato Pdf

During the rapid growth period of the Japanese economy, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, the economic system that became entrenched in Japan -- the so-called Japanese-style capitalism -- was based on the government-business-bureaucracy triad. Although its distinct features survived the subsequent two decades of slow growth, there are many indications that the Japanese economy is once again struggling to transform itself. These translations from the Japanese economic literature expertly address this transformation.

Author : Sébastien Lechevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317974963

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The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism by Sébastien Lechevalier Pdf

In the 1980s the performance of Japan’s economy was an international success story, and led many economists to suggest that the 1990s would be a Japanese decade. Today, however, the dominant view is that Japan is inescapably on a downward slope. Rather than focusing on the evolution of the performance of Japanese capitalism, this book reflects on the changes that it has experienced over the past 30 years, and presents a comprehensive analysis of the great transformation of Japanese capitalism from the heights of the 1980s, through the lost decades of the 1990s, and well into the 21st century. This book posits an alternative analysis of the Japanese economic trajectory since the early 1980s, and argues that whereas policies inspired by neo-liberalism have been presented as a solution to the Japanese crisis, these policies have in fact been one of the causes of the problems that Japan has faced over the past 30 years. Crucially, this book seeks to understand the institutional and organisational changes that have characterised Japanese capitalism since the 1980s, and to highlight in comparative perspective, with reference to the ‘neo-liberal moment’, the nature of the transformation of Japanese capitalism. Indeed, the arguments presented in this book go well beyond Japan itself, and examine the diversity of capitalism, notably in continental Europe, which has experienced problems that in many ways are also comparable to those of Japan. The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism will appeal to students and scholars of both Japanese politics and economics, as well as those interested in comparative political economy.

Author : Akira Kudo,Matthias Kipping,Harm G. Schröter
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415288762

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German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years by Akira Kudo,Matthias Kipping,Harm G. Schröter Pdf

German and Japanese Business in the Boom Years makes an important contribution to the debate on Americanization from a historical and comparative perspective and is essential reading for students and researchers of business and economic history. Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Chair of Economic, Social and Business History at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Shin Hasegawa, Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Aoyama Gakuin Uni